Ft. Carson P-25 System

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Was in COS this past Sat. up at AF Academy and set up and monitored the Ft. Carson P-25 system for about 5 hours Sat afternoon. The system was very active and lots of talkgroups.
Most was "range operations". They obviously have more tower sites than listed in the database.
This is what I copied with my PSR-500.
CH 1 406.50
CH 2 406.775 the control channel that I heard
CH 3 406.9875
CH 4 408.45
CH 5 407.00
CH 6 410.90
CH 7 407.125
CH 8 408.425
SY:354 R001 S001
99% N352 W: BEE00
Frequencies associated with the control channel of 406.775; 408.425, 409.125, 410.150, 410.1625, 410.55, 410.7

Talkgroups heard:1, 41,48,129,130,135,139,140,272,357,379,701,704,705,707,708,714,715

Since the signal was so strong I would have to guess that the Ft Carson system shares some of the tower sites that the AF Academy uses on the Academy grounds.

73, Rex
 

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Here is a list of the users of your channels 1-8:

CH 1 406.5000 354-0103
CH 2 406.7750 354-0102
CH 3 406.9875 Not used by Fort Carson; Denver 8D34-0003 uses this
CH 4 408.4500 Not used by Fort Carson
CH 5 407.0000 Not used by Fort Carson
CH 6 410.9000 354-0106
CH 7 407.1250 Not used by Fort Carson; Denver 8D34-0002 uses this
CH 8 408.4250 354-0102

Was in COS this past Sat. up at AF Academy and set up and monitored the Ft. Carson P-25 system for about 5 hours Sat afternoon. The system was very active and lots of talkgroups.
Most was "range operations". They obviously have more tower sites than listed in the database.
This is what I copied with my PSR-500.
CH 1 406.50
CH 2 406.775 the control channel that I heard
CH 3 406.9875
CH 4 408.45
CH 5 407.00
CH 6 410.90
CH 7 407.125
CH 8 408.425
SY:354 R001 S001
99% N352 W: BEE00
Frequencies associated with the control channel of 406.775; 408.425, 409.125, 410.150, 410.1625, 410.55, 410.7

Talkgroups heard:1, 41,48,129,130,135,139,140,272,357,379,701,704,705,707,708,714,715

Since the signal was so strong I would have to guess that the Ft Carson system shares some of the tower sites that the AF Academy uses on the Academy grounds.

73, Rex
 

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I know this post is a little late, but I have programmed the CC's into my 2096. the only indication I get of any activity is TGID 0041, with no audio. Are there any offset's I need to program. I use WIN96 to program the radio, but currently lack the resources to get a premium subscription to RR.

Any help would be appreciated. BTW, I monitor in the car to and from work at Schriever AFB. I travel the route south on Powers, then east on Bradley.

TIA,
Steve
 

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Anyone listening to Fort Carson these days? I am retired military and listen to local law and fire, but also listen to all the local military base/post law/security and fire. Was just wondering who else is listening.
 

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Anyone listening to Fort Carson these days? I am retired military and listen to local law and fire, but also listen to all the local military base/post law/security and fire. Was just wondering who else is listening.

I really wish I could listen to Carson. I was an MP there many years ago. I think we were on 412.8750, it covered the whole post with just a portable. If I remember right the duty officer was "car 5" and the patrol supervisor (me) was "car 8". Lots of good memories.
 

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It's a trunked system now and has a lot more users these days. Take a look at all the talk groups they have now: Fort Carson Trunking System, Fort Carson, Colorado - Scanner Frequencies

I mainly listen to the MPs, FD, EMS, and sometimes the gate security channel (but they get annoying because they do a comms check on the hour every hour with all the gates, so I usually have them locked out of my scanner).

Some crazy stuff goes on out there these days!
 

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Here are my TG logs for the last 18 months:

Colorado Fort Carson SID 0354

1 Fire Dispatch
2 Fire secondary “Admin”
3 Fire Command 5
4 Fire “Ops 6”
5 Fire Command
6 Tac 8
7 quick conversations
10 “EOC” “Section Chief, we are operational” Exercise
11 “Airfield Safety” “EOC Control” “Airfield Ops” “Evaluators” Exercise
12 “Casualties” “Ambulance” “Airfield” Exercise
14 Radio Techs “Goose Mtn” “Cheyenne”
21 Airshow Medical; “Rescue Group, this is Command exercise” “Task Force”
22 Airshow “Airfield Command”
23 Airshow “ECP” Gates
24 testing
41 MP’s
42 MP’s “Channel 2”
43 “Exercise Control” “Scenarios”
44 “drivers” “routes”
45 MP related, traffic control, special events
46 Command 5 “Ocean 41” “Patrol 51” “Aircraft on fire” Exercise
48 Gulf units, Gate security; “Expired insurance” “Security stations” “Eagle Base”
50
62
63 Trains “containers” “Total of 3 cars” “tracks” “train”
64 Trains “package” “crating” “receiving” “MCC”
73 Bus driver, hospital, bus test run, Hallmark Base
74 “Operations” “Guard Shack” “Ops, Whiskey 13”
76
77 “gate” “AHA” = Ammunition holding area
81 PD?
82
84
86 “Post incident recovery operations” Exercise
91
97

107
108 “Ambulance Section”
109 “I will drop down to my channel” Exercise
110 “8 ambulances on the ground” Exercise
111 “near Logistics office” “Here comes the truck” “Install” “cables”
112 “Security” units; “Guard points” “Charlie” & “Echo” units
113
115 Buses “Mountain medics” “Evaluators” “H51 bus”
122 Range "shop" "hummer" “target” “bullet holes” “prepare for new world order”
124 Tower
125 Range “targets”
127
129 Range “engage the enemy”
130 “Radio station” “computers” “targetry” “shoe house” “paintball markers” “AK’s M’4’s”
130 “Request terminal lights turned on” “Red devil” “Any Crisis Element”
131
135 Range (ranges 11, 57, 65, 135)
136 “pick up spray paint”
137 Range “fuel pods” “524-3958”
139 Tower, airfield; “Wildlife 2 cleared the airfield”
140 Range (ranges 8, 60, 119, 143)
141 Range; Stn. 35: The Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS), 150 mi s/e of Fort Carson;
142 Range (9N)
163
164
181 “MCC” “11 pallets” “Mohawk 8” “Gates locked” “trailers” “containers”

204 “Echo Base”
213 “Trojan Support GSC” Exercise
214 “Taxiing down runway” “looking for injured jumpers” “DCSO”
216
217 Army CID surveillance, N/B I-25 from Ft. Carson to GoG exit “Rabbit heading west”
218 Range “Firing point” “targets” “Shadow” “Ghostrider” Training
229
236 “Lane 3 this is Cheyenne X-Ray” Ample amounts of weapons checked out
237 “Ammo point this is 3 Charlie” “Cheyenne Main”
238 “ID target” “Tower, vehicle 1”
239
240 “Sit rep” “Spartan” “Punisher” “down range” “Gun trucks” Checkpoints
251 F1 “This is TF, over” Tech support?
252 F2 Network stuff
253 F3 “Not on the Network” “connectivity” “Cables” “switch” “TSB”
254 “Ch 4”
255 “Ch 5”
258 “Butts Field” “Need light in strand 5” “RSU” “Mobile 4, Mobile 11” “Comm Room”
259 IT
272 “Vanguard” units; “Targets locked & destroyed” “Tower, Vanguard Main”
276 Training scenarios “Balloons” “Targets” “Ammo detail”

307
316 “Dispatch, Green 2 coming up to checkpoint” RR=Shuttle service
317 “Bring your dispatch book” “Barkeley and Pressly” “Checkpoint 2”
330 “Victims” Exercise; Vietnam Wall related activity
336 (Channel 1 to TG 317)
337 “SOG, AHA”
341 “Role players” Exercise
343 “Fuel” ‘Gate 12” “Range” “Horseman” “Airburst” “Tower” Exercise
356 Exercise “Recycling people”
357 Golf Course “just getting to the green” “Pro Shop” “Special Events Center” “front 9”
360 “Rides”
363 “SOG, AHA”
370 testing
371 “2 mortar rounds just went downrange”
373 “AHA, Gate guard”
374 “Hardcastle” “Hammer, X-Ray”
375
376 Tac 5? Exercise
377 Cadre Net “Village” Mission training
378 “Do a weapons check” Convoy – paintball guns
380 Buses; ample cussing

409 “Fire in the hole”
410 “CP lane 3” “Any explosive related stuff?”

501 “Blue 1” “Blue X-Ray”
551 “Raider exercise” “Raider Stealth” 2100 hours SitRep for training
555 “tanks killed” “Ops 46, Defend 7”
557 Scenarios “OC2 on 42” “Phoenix” “Phoenix Main” “Tracking” “Tack Main”
558 “Two dead tanks, hit by Bradley” “Have to resurrect whole platoon” “Raider” “503-9036”
560 “Range 119” “Avenger, Pack horse”
561 “Drawing ammo” “Putting IED in place” “You monitoring comms for Packhorse Main?”
563 “97 personnel” “Eliminator Main”
564 “RSO Tower” Range Safety Officer
566 “SOG” “AHA” “Bulldog Mike”
569 “Range 51” “Thunder 6” “Iron Knight 5” “enemy fight” “Bradleys”
570 “Iron Knight” “Thunder 1”

605 “test”
608 “Talon Main”
614 “Range” “night iteration”
620 “Lonestar” “checkpoints”
651
652 “CP” “SOG” “AHA” “Moving across town”
653
654 “Baker Yankee, Baker 7” “How many people in the exercise?”
655 “SOG” “AHA”
656 “SOG” “AHA”
657 656’s secondary
658 “AHA” “Checkpoint 1” “Blackjack” “Down range” Training
659 “23M” “23H” “23N”
660 “SOG” “AHA”
661 “Ghostrider”
662 “Mountaineer units” “outlaw 26” “Mountaineer Main” “Trip ticket”
663 “Mountaineer main, this is Alpha 26”
664 “RSO, ECP” “OIC, ECP over”
665

701
702 Training; “Commo” teams
704 SOG? “AHA”
706 “Tiger 6”
707 Training
708 Training “Assault is executing”
710 “Ambush” “QRA” On trails with a Humvee
713 “AHA” “SOG this is AHA”
714 “Gate Guard, X-Ray”
718 SOG
748
761
768

801"Trailblazer main” “MCT”
802 Range “As yet to qualify” “6 people need to shoot”
804 “Ammo Shack, come in”
805 Training

2001 "lightning protection is complete" "refueling" “EOC” “Operation 4 is complete”
2003 Clear/encoded “Call into Ops Center” “OC, Escort 1”
2005 Fire dispatch “Chief 2, alarm center” “Fire dispatch” “Fire alarm center”
2009 "Security Operations" "Stryker" units; "Viper" units; "Call the desk, 4236 [719-526-4236]"
2010 (Security Ops 2)
2012 encoded
2013 (Site 102) encoded
2020 encoded
2221 (Site 101, 102) “Iron Horse” “Range”
2222 (Site 101, 102)
2223 Enc/clear; “ECP” “Bravo 22, this is Bravo Main” “You have IED factory at the auto shop”
2034 “This is the OC” “Call me at 4226”
2036 “Security Ops” “IDS” “P5” “Archer Road outside P1”


(Rev. 17 November 2012)

Anyone listening to Fort Carson these days? I am retired military and listen to local law and fire, but also listen to all the local military base/post law/security and fire. Was just wondering who else is listening.
 

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Wow Mick, that's some good info. I just have what RR has listed programmed into my scanner. I guess I need to use search instead scan. I knew they used a lot of talk groups but that's more than I imagined.

Now I am going to have to log some listening and post what I hear. Although I cheat a little. My computer logs the transmissions and saves the audio to listen to later. So if you think you heard something, and need the audio or info on what they said, at least on the main talk groups, just let me know.

I usually log and save audio on my computer for Fountain FD and PD, as well as the CSPD and EPSO alternate and TAC talk groups, but I am going to use the search IDfeature for Fort Carson now.

Thanks for the info! I reply on here with what I find too.


Dan

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2001 "lightning protection is complete" "refueling" “EOC” “Operation 4 is complete”
2003 Clear/encoded “Call into Ops Center” “OC, Escort 1”
2005 Fire dispatch “Chief 2, alarm center” “Fire dispatch” “Fire alarm center”
2009 "Security Operations" "Stryker" units; "Viper" units; "Call the desk, 4236 [719-526-4236]"
2010 (Security Ops 2)
2012 encoded
2013 (Site 102) encoded
2020 encoded
2221 (Site 101, 102) “Iron Horse” “Range”
2222 (Site 101, 102)
2223 Enc/clear; “ECP” “Bravo 22, this is Bravo Main” “You have IED factory at the auto shop”
2034 “This is the OC” “Call me at 4226”
2036 “Security Ops” “IDS” “P5” “Archer Road outside P1”

(Rev. 17 November 2012)

For that last group of numbers (the 2XXX series above), are the 2221, 2222, and 2223 IDs supposed to be 2021, 2022, and 2023? You have all the IDs in your list in order except for these and it looks like those three inadvertently got an extra 2 in the second digit, but I could be wrong.

Thanks.
 

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The db admins won't accept submissions of unidentified talkgroups or stuff like 130 “Radio station” “computers” “targetry” “shoe house” “paintball markers” “AK’s M’4’s”

The best thing would be to start a wiki article or add them to and existing one like I did with these:
Fort Hood - The RadioReference Wiki
U.S. Army: Fort Sill - The RadioReference Wiki
 

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OK, Mick, here's one you can submit to add to the database under Military Police Talk Groups:

45 Fort Carson Military Police - Traffic and Special Events

They were using it last night for catching DUI drivers coming onto post. They were switching back and forth between this one and MP-1 (TG-41). Then they would say, "Switching back to Traffic Special Events". Then you would here them on TG-45.
 
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Also, here's another one I have been hearing to add to the talk groups that have been logged... TG-611

It's one of those range training talk groups. I am going to have to get with some Army guys to see what all of these are for.

Callsigns heard:

Tower (Small observation tower overlooking each range), radio ID 3550
TAC, radio ID 3551
RSO (Range Safety Officer), radio ID 3552
Beachmaster (Controls Vehicle Movement on range), radio ID 3560
 

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2034 and 2036 are good TG's, 2036 was active today with Security units. Dispatch is encrypted, mobiles are in the clear. Looking at the list I can see that I just added them to the list and did not put them in order numerically.

I have not heard the other TG's listed from 2001 to 2223 in a few months now.

For that last group of numbers (the 2XXX series above), are the 2221, 2222, and 2223 IDs supposed to be 2021, 2022, and 2023? You have all the IDs in your list in order except for these and it looks like those three inadvertently got an extra 2 in the second digit, but I could be wrong.

Thanks.
 

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2034 and 2036 are good TG's, 2036 was active today with Security units. Dispatch is encrypted, mobiles are in the clear. Looking at the list I can see that I just added them to the list and did not put them in order numerically.

I have not heard the other TG's listed from 2001 to 2223 in a few months now.

Yeah my computer logged TG 2036 also, with radio ID 6508 transmitting, "We have inbound Bechtel traffic at Gate 20 in about 20 mins". That was on 12/2/2012 at 00:52.

Now that I am looking for unknown talkgroups I also found a new one for Peterson AFB today (TG-97) and identified it as well. I will have to talk about that one in another thread and submit it for addition when I get a chance.
 
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